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Security+: The Foundation for Solid Network and Information Security

whitepaper New ways of hacking systems have resulted in viruses, spy ware, malware, e-mail bombs, worms, Trojans, spam--the list goes on! This whitepaper introduces the Security+ certification and the foundation for a career in Information security and data...

Tags: network security, viruses, networking, list

[30 Apr 2008]

Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service

whitepaper This paper uncovers a vulnerability that allows for an attacker to perform an email-based attack on selected victims, using only standard scripts and agents. What differentiates the attack this paper described from other, already known forms of...

Tags: denial of service

[20 Feb 2008]

Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech

Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and suicide bombs. The equipment was demonstrated earlier this month at the MoD...

Tags: simulator, bomb, ministry of defence

[22 Oct 2007]

Stockbroker invests in data hosting

News Our data centre staff there were already on a disaster recovery setting, then the bombs started going off in London. The move was driven in part by rising property costs in the City of London but also by the events of 7 July, 2005.

Tags: 7/7, atos origin, data centre, finance

[22 Aug 2007]

Revealed: Strangest business tech emergencies

News Unexploded bombs, blocked sewers and burning wheelie bins are just some of the strange incidents that have forced companies to activate their business continuity plans. World War II bombs discovered in a nearby building site caused one company to...

Tags: business continuity

[27 Apr 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 23.03.07

Round-Up I would certainly not recommend travelling anywhere in London at the end of March, let alone large buildings - like Docklands conference halls which are a prime target for avian-flu ridden pigeons carrying Al Qaeda-manufactured dirty bombs," said...

[23 Mar 2007]

Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act

Cheat Sheet This meant prosecutions of alleged perpetrators of email bombs and the like proved troublesome under the old law. I think I can work out what that is. Indeed, it is a reasonably self-explanatory article of UK legislation.

Tags: cma

[29 Nov 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 06.10.06

Round-Up After all you could also use Google to find information about how to construct bombs and how to poison your spouse just as quickly, which one supposes is the flip side of the democratisation of knowledge.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[06 Oct 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Flight frustrations

Comment Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from Stansted Airport amid a sea of confused and tired humanity via a commercial wi-fi service On 9/10 I flew out of Boston on a flight that was hijacked the next day and on 7/7 I had passed...

Tags: business travel

[22 Aug 2006]

Beware 'suicidal' malware, says CyberTrust

News According to Denehy, techniques used not only include 'the obvious ones' such as encryption and rootkits but also "compression bombs" - which are compressed files that try to make life difficult for forensic tools by attempting to expand to an...

Tags: suicidal malware, stealth, cybertrust, malware

[28 Jul 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.06.06

Round-Up The press release added that their moral outrage was only compounded by the fact they could also search for sites that contained information on anthrax, massage, bombs and terrorism, suggesting they would favour a blanket ban on many key words...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[02 Jun 2006]

Anti-terror scanning tech tested on London commuters

News Passengers who agree to be screened at Paddington during the trial will pass through a metal box containing a millimetre wave-imaging technology that can detect items such as guns, ammunition or bombs hidden beneath clothing.

Tags: scanners, heathrow express

[11 Jan 2006]

Body scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs

News In the immediate aftermath of the 7 July bombings in London the government has also said it planned to evaluate high-tech millimetre wave imaging technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people.

Tags: scanners, department for transport

[31 Oct 2005]

NYC subway gets $212m high-tech anti-terror scanners

News The UK government and police are also looking at the use of sophisticated high-tech scanning equipment to detect concealed bombs and weapons on London's underground transport system following the terrorist bombings on 7 July.

Tags: lockheed martin, subway, nyc, anti-terror

[25 Aug 2005]

Politicians call for Tube mobile coverage review

News The Lib Dem members of the Greater London Assembly claim mobiles will pose a risk to the transport system as they can be used to detonate bombs remotely. The Liberal Democrats have called for a rethink of plans to make mobile phones work on the...

Tags: liberal democrat, terrorist, tube

[28 Jul 2005]

Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners

News The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people following the suicide bomb attacks on London this month.

[22 Jul 2005]

Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists

Comment There is scant evidence that ID cards or other controls on the individual will make a significant difference to our safety against the threat of bombs and such like. As with the war on drugs, the government has apparently made little progress in...

Tags: war on drugs, terrorist attack, id cards

[12 Jul 2005]

Leader: Tech and terror

Leader Some mainstream news programmes started to talk about mobile networks being used to detonate the four bombs. While the first scenario above - bombs set off from afar - is technically possible, it is unlikely in the case of the Tube trains that were...

Tags: terror attacks, london, mobile phones

[11 Jul 2005]

Bomb blast web traffic - more results

News Web traffic surged yesterday as British people looked for information after four bombs were set off in London. According to data from web monitoring company Hitwise, British clicks to news sites surged yesterday to 5.56 per cent of all websites...

Tags: london attacks, bombs, bbc

[08 Jul 2005]

London attacks: Were mobiles used to detonate bombs?

News The role that such devices played in the Madrid bombings, which left almost 200 people dead in the Spanish capital, is well documented: 10 bombs were attached to mobile handsets, with the phones' alarms used to detonate the explosives.

Tags: gchq, cell, mobiles, london

[08 Jul 2005]

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